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A person recovering from drug or alcohol addiction is very likely going to encounter behavioral therapies in their substance abuse recovery program. It doesn’t matter whether a person is seeking out a South Florida alcohol treatment program or a South Florida drug rehab, Ft. Lauderdale rehab facilities almost all offer cognitive behavioral therapies as a…

Behavioral Therapies You’ve may have heard of behavioral therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and slightly lesser known dialectical behavior therapy. Behavior therapies are gaining a name for themselves in the substance abuse disorder recovery scene and for good reason. Behavioral therapy teaches the skills necessary for a recovering drug or alcohol addict to cast aside…

Tranquilizers can seem like kind of a vintage drug addiction. The 1950’s were a time of heavy tranquilizer, or barbiturate, addiction for instance. According to PBS (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/marilyn-monroe-and-the-prescription-drugs-that-killed-her)Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose on barbiturate known as Nembutal, We don’t hear as much about tranquilizers these days. Our time is spent watching the awful headlines scroll…

Chemical dependency on any addictive substance is usually, though not always, tied to some kind of co-occurring disorder like bipolar disorder or chronic depression and anxiety. The two disorders gode each other along, making it impossible to get clean or mentally fit without treating both afflictions. At our residential detox facility our medically qualified staff…

Even though they have been the drug of choice for past generations, you don’t usually think of tranquilizers these days when you are considering the chemical dependency and drug or alcohol abuse epidemic happening in this country. We mostly hear more about alcohol addiction, and opioid addiction but people are still struggling with tranquilizer addiction…

Amphetamines, like almost all forms of intoxication are a substance of betrayal. They promise acceleration, answers, and ease but they lead to a brutal crash, leaving you with open questions and addiction looming over your future. Amphetamines put an incredible and unsustainable strain on the body of a chemically dependent person, and when the breaking…

As you go through the heroic act of getting help for your chemical dependency you’ll learn pretty quickly that not only is addiction a disease of complicated makeup but it is also, often, a symptom of another serious problem. It can be difficult to pull apart heroin addiction and mental health disorders. These two afflictions…

You’ve relapsed. After having crawled your way up from the bottom depths of addiction to ask for help with your substance abuse and chemical dependency, you sought out substance abuse treatment in Florida. You made it through detox in broward county and drug rehab in Ft. Lauderdale. You worked tirelessly toward your sobriety and now…

You’re an alcoholic or drug addict. You’ve admitted it before. You gathered up the courage, took several very deep breaths and called 1st Step’s South Florida drug rehab and residential detox. You successfully completed the program and went home to start living a sober and healthy life. You were moving forward. You were healing. But…